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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2014
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
John M. Bent, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Sorin Faibish, Newton, MA (US);
Dennis P. J. Ting, Groton, MA (US);
Percy Tzelnic, Concord, MA (US);
Uday Gupta, Westford, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A multi-tier storage system is provided that employs a burst buffer middleware appliance for batch messaging. An exemplary multi-tier storage system comprises at least first and second storage tiers comprising storage for storing data; and at least one burst buffer appliance, wherein the at least one burst buffer appliance comprises an abstract storage interface comprising a software interface module that communicates with at least one persistent storage device in at least one of the first and second storage tiers, wherein the at least one persistent storage device provides a list application programming interface, wherein the software interface module provides a batch operation comprised of a plurality of individual operations to the at least one persistent storage device using an aggregated message. The batch operation optionally comprises a batch operation for processing metadata. A burst buffer appliance is also provided for implementing the batch messaging techniques described herein.